Tool for Documentation

About7Narwhal

Does anyone have a suggestion for an application to create documentation with? I have been using Problem Steps Recorder on Windows 7 but it refuses to capture Administrative tasks even when it as run as an admin. I do not want to make video tutorials, just documentation that shows my clicks and what I typed with screenshots.

Thanks!

seigex

Print Screen + MS Paint + MS Word?

Sorry, couldn't help it

seigex

Try running it as administrator, if it's elevated you can probably do administrator tasks with it.

EDIT: nevermind, i didn't read your post all the way.

EDIT 2: Just wondering which administrative task you're trying to record? I just tested it with some and it seemed to do OK. But I'm in Win10.

paul78

Are you referring to documentation that you need to share or just to keep for yourself?

I personally like using wiki's - I find that it helps me organize notes very cleanly and search for topics. I use MoinMoin. Although recently, I've been thinking about switching to MediaWiki.

About7Narwhal

@Paul: This documentation will be shared with other technical professionals. It doesn't have to be fancy, just efficient.
@seigex: It is several non-windows applications that have the issue. When they call their processes that require administrative rights, the PSR returns a no screenshot captured for this step message. Also, I normally would use something like Greenshot (Similar to screen cap and mspaint) but I am going on vacation and no one knows what I do to cover for me. So I have a lot of stuff to cover in a short period of time.

wd40

I think you can edit the recording file and add text for the missing step

e.g. "In the User Account Control Press Yes"

Or

Run the application in Hyper-V or vmware to get a screen shot of the message and insert it in the recording file.

paul78

About7Narwhal wrote: »

It doesn't have to be fancy, just efficient.

In that case, a wiki would be what I would use. It isn't fancy but can be customized in future if you need to be more fanciful. The agility is what I like about wiki's. If you don't want to spend a lot of time setting one up - I suggest using a Turnkey Linux prebuilt VM.

MediaWiki - Wikipedia's Wiki Engine | TurnKey GNU/Linux - for MediaWiki
MoinMoin - Wiki Engine | TurnKey GNU/Linux - for MoinMoin

alias454

CamStudio - Free Screen Recording Software works pretty good